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Has this happened to you?
You trade for a Pokémon and forget to put an Everstone onto it, and suddenly it evolves and loses all its worth (at least for you)?
Have you ever migrated one of your old beloved Pokémon from VA 1.0 and forgot that it would lose its Everstone in the process, suddenly it gets one more level and boom, your memories of that Pokémon shattered...

There is a simple solution! Add this to the Mart!:
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Give it to one of your evolved Pokémon, and it will devolve into its prior form. Maybe add an evolution block for a day, and everyone has enough time to slap an Everstone onto it.
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+1

haven't had that happen to me yet, but would be nice to have just in case!
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This hast happen to me, but I'm always extremely paranoid and triple check if my adopts have everstones AND never evolve my shinies, unless I have duplicates, because I'm scared I'll regret it later, cuz it feels so... final. Idk! +1
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+1, that actually happend to me: "Have you ever migrated one of your old beloved Pokémon from VA 1.0 and forgot that it would lose its Everstone in the process, suddenly it gets one more level and boom"

Would love to have the possiblity do de-evolve a pokemon like this, because you can't even trade the migrated pokemon to fix this mistake as an alternative. And it would be helpful if you have a very bad memory like mine^^°
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+1 giving my support for this, would be a nice gadget, i would like to evolve some of my pokemon back to their first stage. also got caught into not seeing the warning about items being lost during migration.
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+1111!
I would love to de-evolve shinies I traded for that are already evolved when I got them.

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Please, I want my Shiny chikorita back.
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some questions came to my mind...

what about baby pokemon and Promos? as for me devolving into babies shouldn't be included if the pokemon hasn't originally been a baby before...like your not able to devolve your Marill into an Azurill if it was "born" a Marill...

should evolved Promos like Advent Frozen Gabite also be included?
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I had to trade a Meganium for a new Chikorita because I needed a Bayleef.

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+1 support for this. This would be especially helpful for time-based evolutions. Trying to get an Espeon/Umbroen or later the Lycanroc variations and they evolve at the wrong time and you get the opposite of what you were aiming for... it'd be very helpful to be able to roll back the evolution and try again, if you want to at all.
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+1 I agree! It would be great if we had something like that :D
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+1

I accidently evolved my shiny abra that I migrated because I forgot there was no everstone after migration
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Great idea, I totally support this.
Sabbo wrote: November 14th, 2022, 10:15 pm some questions came to my mind...

what about baby pokemon and Promos? as for me devolving into babies shouldn't be included if the pokemon hasn't originally been a baby before...like your not able to devolve your Marill into an Azurill if it was "born" a Marill...

should evolved Promos like Advent Frozen Gabite also be included?
I'd say they can be "devolved" until the base form that hatches from regular, adopted eggs. Baby Pokemon always need some kind of "special" evolution anyway, if I'm remembering correctly? So the chances of accidentally evolving a baby Pokemon and having to reverse it should be relatively low.

For everything that evolves by clicking (including promos) I'd say the spray should work.
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I don't think I would even mind if we would be able to de-evolve to baby pokemon. This would at least give some kind of value to unpopular pokemon like the Hitmos and Jynx xD
If you want a specific shiny you still have to be very lucky or have to breed for it so the daycare still has its purpose. And you can't breed for the first stage of babypokemon (Pikachu, Jynx, Magmar etc). They have to hatch from regular eggs which makes their shinies rarer.
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This might be a good idea but ONLY for pokemon evolving by level up.
Making it possible to de-evolve any other pokemon, especially item-evolving ones would be irrational and some kind of misusing.
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■the price of that kind of item should be high enough because of its effect
■it should be limited in time, like it can be used once a month or even less
■if used on a final stage of pokemon (e.g. starter), it should impose a grace period long enough until it could be de-evolved again
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Are we playing pokemon or digimon? :roll:
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What's with all the ideas of arbitrary restrictions and prohibitive costs? Just let it devolve anything and put it on the shop for $5,000. (Which is the cost of a Gracidea Flower btw.) Keep it simple.
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I'm 1+ for keeping it simple. There's literally no reason to overcomplex this. Put it in the shop for 5-10k, let us use it on everything (level, item, trade evolution) and with unlimited uses. I mean. It'll cost money after all. That's enough.
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K-Y wrote: November 16th, 2022, 12:45 am Are we playing pokemon or digimon? :roll:
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Devolution Spray existed in the Pokémon TCG since the Base Set from 1999. I don't see a big problem in creating a version for Virtuadopt.

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What about it would be misusing?
I agree that the price point could be set around 10-15k, but anything else is irrational. If you pay such a price, you should have the right to use it as many times as you can pay for it.
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@Kitsu the whole game is already simple, and in my opinion people want to make it banal. Let's say, you have a high level shiny Eevee. One day you decide to make it Vaporeon, another day you want it de-evolve to be Eevee, and pick another evo depending on your... mood. Then it's enough to have one shiny Eevee, you can have all of its evolution now - how comfy 🙈
Personally, I think the idea may be good, but not for all of the pokemon. As I wrote above, pokemon with evo via level up or migrated ones can be evolved by accident - and that's okay to use the item in that case. But using it on item-evolving pokemon would be too much, as you can't evolve pokemon of that kind by accident - you do it consciously.
Besides, it will mess up the official stats - between basic form shinies and their evolution stages.

I'm really surprised I'm the only one who can see it.
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